I throw myself down in my Chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

-Donne,John
  Sermon preached at the funeral of Sir  William Cockayne, 12 Dec.

About the time you are writing a line that you have writtenso oftenthat you wanttothrow up, that isthefirst time the American people will hear it.

-Gergen, David Richmond
  On working as a speech-writer in the Nixon White House. In the NewYork Times, 31 Oct.

Throw away thy rod, Throw away thy wrath: O my God, Take the gentle path.

-Herbert, George
'Discipline', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

Nous ne pouvons arracher une seule page de notre vie, mais nous pouvons jeter le livre au feu. We cannot tear out a single page from our life, but we can throw the entire book in the fire.

-Samuelson, Sir Sydney
  Mauprat.

It is not so much who you elect, it's who you throw out.

-Thompson,James R
  On the campaign to clean up government. In the Chicago Tribune, 26 Jul.